Comic Strip Review: Johnny Comet by Frank Frazetta & Earl Baldwin Before Frank Frazetta hit it big with movie posters and book cover paintings of brawny barbarians and scantily-clad women, he worked in comic books and tried to break into the lucrative newspaper comics business. After a couple of abortive efforts, Mr. Frazetta was… Continue reading Comic Strip Review: Johnny Comet
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Comic Strip Review: Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy, Volume 13 1950-1951
Comic Strip Review: Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy Volume 13: 1950-1951 IDW, through the Library of American Comics imprint, has been reprinting the long-running Dick Tracy comic strip in over-sized volumes, starting from its 1931 beginnings. This volume covers the turn of the decade from the 1940s to the early 1950s. We begin with a callback… Continue reading Comic Strip Review: Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy, Volume 13 1950-1951
Comic Strip Review: Dick Tracy
Comic Strip Review: Dick Tracy by Joe Staton and Mike Curtis. The Dick Tracy comic strip was started way back in 1931 by Chester Gould, who saw criminals constantly in the headlines of Chicago newspapers and imagined a brave and clever police officer fighting back against them.The thrilling stories and colorful villains made it a… Continue reading Comic Strip Review: Dick Tracy